Greetings, if you happened to glance at my page on youtube you might know that I released a new video yesterday. I wanted to talk about it a for a bit and also showcase it on my blog as well. (Since I have a blog I might as well use it more!) Thanks to Jovie, I was introduced to some very helpful and very awesome tutorials for After Effects. And after a long period of punching Mr. Bunny in the stomach and crying over my missing happy cake, i finally felt energize to do something.
So I spent about a week studying some of the cool tricks you can do in AE and figuring new tricks on my own. I created this little video which i feel is more a test video and not so much a master piece releasing. I still love it don’t get me wrong, but I mainly wanted to see how AE graphic effects would look when combined with SL footage. I barely used Vegas for any video effects like i normally do, all the colorizing was done in AE, along with my logo graphic at the beginning.
Actually i think the two worked pretty good together, seeing how a couple of shots were created in a room that was completely made in AE, with the character keyed into the shot. The inspiration for the particular style was brought to my attention by this old apple ipod nano commercial where you see light streaks moving with the dancing.
Just so happens one of the tutorials i found teaches how to go about recreating that same effect, although its not exactly the same but it still looks close to how the graphic designers contracted by Apple did it.
Since I’m all about sharing the knowledge and not hording information for myself, if you go to www.VideoCopilot.net you’ll find a bunch of free tutorials including AE basic knowledge stuff. It’s very helpful also a gold mine if you are hip to the business like myself and you are aware of how incredibly expensive it is to learn how to use AE let alone acquire the software.
Cheers.
